Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!

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Status

Released

Production

Media-Generation

Aired

2003-01-01

Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!

Several filmmakers discuss the introduction of Western modes of communication, especially film, to native cultures. While these tools can help a native people to document their own culture, it can also "swallow" their culture, encroaching upon and irreversibly altering it. The film takes its title from a book written by filmmaker Edmund Carpenter in 1972 about his engagement with media in Papua New Guinea.